Steve HermanToday's real 'fake news' incident (which added $2.4 trillion in market value and erased it nearly as quickly) hopefully will be dissected in every journalism class and newsroom. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/media/fake-news-x-post-caused-market-whiplash/index.html
Baron Vonskinnback@w7voa I wonder how much more of this the world will take before it finally recognises that a managed & fully accountable social media along with a proper rule of law on deliberate journalistic falsehoods misinformation and propaganda all hiding under the umbrella freedom of speech will finally be taken seriously...🤷♂️
Matt Palmer@Vonskinnback the US is in turmoil because it is being run by a petulant man-child who gleefully threatens anyone who disagrees with him, and your solution to the turmoil is that the government should have more power to punish those who engage in communication that the government dislikes?
@womble @w7voa so what would you do about it, because historically what would work is to implement oversight on private businesses to ensure they are not hurting the population which will be government operated, admittedly right now America can't do it because it's run by an absolute penis and his gaggle of fuckwits, but it doesn't stop the rest of the world implementing oversight on us media and social media businesses similar to what the EU is looking to do with Twitter...